How do you define quality of life?
Housing options and affordability?
Easy and safe access to places?
Shared community gathering spaces?
Mix and diversity of retail and services?
Strong sense of community and neighborliness?
Quality Schools?
Feeling of safety?
Quality of Life in the University District
The planning team structured the conversation with the community around six main themes as they influence and impact the quality of life: Housing, Mobility & Transportation, Community Safety, Community Character & Life, Community Services, and Neighborhood Amenities.
There is an understanding that they don’t work in isolation but rather in conjunction with each other, as illustrated in the top right diagram.
In the same way, addressing issues related to any of these themes positively impact and help address the others, as illustrated in the diagram here.
Community sentiment was gathered through a three-part approach: an online survey, a series of guided discussions, and four focus groups. While the almost five hundred survey respondents provided mostly tallied answers, the guided discussions and focus groups allowed more in-depth conversations.